such as X-rays (the first Nobel prize, 1901), the transistor (1956), the maser (1964), the integrated circuit (2000), semiconductor lasers (2000) and finally giant magnetoresistance (2007).

In 2000, Russian physicist Zhores Alferov shared one half of the Nobel Prize with Herbert Kroemer of Germany "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-and opto-electronics." ...

Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". To celebrate the event, in this web ...

Nanotechnology, a groundbreaking concept introduced by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard ... applications of nanotechnology is in the semiconductor industry. Today’s cutting-edge chips ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

The use of gallium nitride for wide applications was so significant that it merited three Japanese scientists being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2014. Gallium nitride has remarkable ...